Oura sells its millionth ring We love big, round numbers here in hardware land. Hitting one million of anything is an impressive feat, let alone one million $399 smart rings. It’s too soon to suggest that Oura has permanently transformed the wearables space, but in a time when things have calcified around the smartwatch form fa… Read More from the Global Wellness News ™
Wall Street Bets on Gym Chains’ Getting Back in Shape
Wall Street Bets on Gym Chains’ Getting Back in Shape Gym chains are back in favor on Wall Street for the same reason Peloton Interactive Inc . is on the outs: Americans are tired of working out at home. Budget operator Planet Fitness Inc . and its franchises attracted hundreds of millions of dollars from private fund managers in recent months, according to people familiar…
Trend in the News – Week of March 16th, 2022
What Is ‘Bigorexia’? –The New York Times, March 9, 2022 This new, in-depth article on the trend explores how a social media diet of perfect bodies is leading to a muscle dysmorphia (“bigorexia”) issue for teen boys. The most popular TikTok and YouTube accounts reveal a landscape dominated by musclemen—and more young men are now becoming obsessed with weightlifting and dieting. It’s a crisis worsened by…
2022 Trend: Toxic Muscularity Comes Clean
2022 Trend: Toxic Muscularity Comes Clean How bulging biceps and rippling abs have had a negative ripple effect on male body image—and how the conspiracy of silence around the rising crises of muscle dysmorphia for men and boys is finally being addressed For a decade, we’ve seen so much forward progress around women’s body positivity in a culture that has long held such unrealistic standards…
Trends in the News – Week of March 2nd, 2022
Relaxing Bath Rituals Have Been Quietly Healing For Centuries –The Zoe Report, February 2022 A revival in the appreciation of bathing rituals from cultures all over the world – from Finnish saunas to Japanese onsens to Turkish hammams to Aztec sweat lodges – is fueling the urban bathhouse trend. Luxury urban spa to open in Oslo with restored public baths, rooftop sauna and Nordic…
TREND: Urban Bathhouses Heating Up
TREND: URBAN BATHHOUSES HEATING UP Affordable, social, and accessible wellness is coming to a city near you For centuries, the cleansing and healing power of water and heat has been harnessed to bring city dwellers together in the common pursuit of cleanliness. Early public bathhouses were fueled by mineral-rich waters warmed from the earth’s core, which bubbled up and not only cleansed, but also worked…
2022 Trend Forecasts Agree: Wellness Is Officially Overtaking Travel
2022 Trend Forecasts Agree: Wellness Is Officially Overtaking Travel Around the New Year, the trend reports start rolling out, and what’s striking is that most of the mainstream travel trend forecasts agree that wellness travel will be a major and growing trend in 2022. As the analysts from the international advertising agency, TBWA’s trends division, Backslash, neatly put it: “Wellness has officially taken over travel.”…
Trends in the News – Week of January 5th, 2022
Wellness vacations go beyond massages and diet tips during the pandemic–The New Yorker With the pandemic lingering into its third year, this article interviews hospitality leaders on how the crisis has dramatically accelerated the importance of wellness in travel. Travel is now about healing from physical and mental stress, and people want programming that provides some new answers about how to feel better. Hotels/resorts are…
Learn why Tel Aviv is a center for health and wellness innovation, technology and investment for GWS 2022
Tel Aviv and Israel Make Headlines for Innovation, Technology and Wellness Tourism Bloomberg ranks Israel #1 for research and development intensity and research concentration. Tel Aviv boasts more startups than any location after Silicon Valley (and more startups per capita than anywhere in the world). The vibrant city of Tel Aviv is also becoming ground zero for health and wellness innovation, technology, and investment—making it…
Trends in the News – Week of November 24, 2021
Medicine’s Wellness Conundrum–The New Yorker This article discusses the rising commingling of medicine and wellness at hospitals–and how patients and doctors don’t always see eye to eye. Patients demand alternative therapies–touch treatments, mental support and stress-reduction, nutritional advice, etc.–that address them in a more human, holistic way. Far more hospitals now have a wellness facility of some kind, and cancer patients in particular are demanding services that fall under the aegis of wellness. For some physicians, offering…